How to Maintain Work-Life Balance in Your Shop: 4 Tips to Consider Don’t get us wrong, we love the #hustle—and honestly, when it comes to running a barbershop, you kind of have to love the hustle life, too (mostly because there’s no time or space to not hustle). But that doesn’t mean we don’t absolutely, …
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Barber Insurance Options
The NAOB Details You Need to Know About:A Quick Policy Summary If you read that headline about insurance policies and thought —or (gasp!) maybe even said out loud while rolling your eyes—something like “policy schmolicy, everyone knows that every insurance policy is the same” then friend, do we have some news for you.At the National …
How To Prepare To Return To Your Shop
Preparing For Your Return to the Shop: What You Need to Know Guys, this is not a drill—it’s finally happening.The shop doors are finally going to be able to legally open again and we can return to work to do what we love best—being badass barbers. The COVID-19 pandemic isn’t over, but we’re finally able to …
Preparing To Return To Your Shop
How to Prepare For Your Return to the Shop Everything You Need to Know about Preparing Mentally, Financially, and More Let’s just come right out and say it—going back to the shop after all of this pandemic mess is going to be weird AF. There, we said it plain as day so you don’t have to. …
How to Network in the Barber Industry
Diving into the world of networking can be intimidating – especially if you’re new in the biz. This blog will show you our top tips for how to network in the barber industry.
Shop Spring Cleaning 101
Barbershop Spring Cleaning: Your Go-To Spring Cleaning Checklist Yep, you read that right, you guys.It’s that time of year. The time we all collectively sigh, groan, complain—whatever it might be—as we sluggishly move toward the mop bucket and count down the hours until our spring cleaning session is over.But guess what? It doesn’t have to be …
Member Benefits
Member-Only Benefits—Exclusive NAOB OfferingsEverything You Need to Know about NAOB’s Member Benefits When it comes to insuring top-notch barbers like you, we don’t mess around.Obviously, as an insurance company that specializes in premium barber-specific professional liability insurance, we’d be thrilled to take this opportunity to brag on our badass barber coverage—but we’re not going to.Why?Because …
CARES Act For The Barber Industry
Let’s Talk Legislation: What Every Barber Needs to Know About the CARES Act If the COVID-19 pandemic has you feeling lost, overwhelmed, and undeniably heavy, know something important—you’re not alone.What we’re all dealing with right now is so far from normal. No matter how experienced we are, how professional we are, how great with money we …
Focusing on Mental Health During COVID-19
Focusing on Mental Health During COVID-19: How to Find Peace in the Pandemic If you read the title of this article and rolled your eyes right before you said something like “peace in the pandemic? Yeah right”—then know we’re right there with you. Everything that’s happening in the world right now feels uncertain and shaky and scary—and …
How To Cope With COVID-19 In Your Shop
Offsetting the Burden: How to Cope with the Coronavirus in Your Shop We’re going to start this piece off with the best advice we can give any barber in a time like this—take a big, deep breath.We’re not trying to sugarcoat anything or pretend that meditative breathing is going to change the way of the world, …










